cwd option in child_process.spawn

[Rajasekhar Chinnam]

hello

I am running node on Windows. The 'cwd' option of the child_process.spawn method is ignored after upgrading to node to '0.10.29'.

Any pointers to resolve this will be appreciated. 

Code:

var process_name = "test.bat";

var working_dir = "D:\\tmp\\tmp";

var arguments = ""'

var launcher = child_process.spawn(process_name, arguments, { cwd: working_dir, env: process.env });

thank you

Raja

[Rajasekhar Chinnam]

Found the issue:

Now 'arguments' should be array not string. 

Node should have given a better error message rather than just ignoring the cwd parameter.

[Sam Roberts]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Rajasekhar Chinnam
<rajasekha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am running node on Windows. The 'cwd' option of the child_process.spawn
> method is ignored after upgrading to node to '0.10.29'.

Do you have a complete reproduction?

Because I don't think you can spawn test.bat on windows (you can
exec() it, but that's because with exec test.bat is passed to the
cmd.exe shell, which knows how to run bat files).

[Sam Roberts]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Rajasekhar Chinnam
<rajasekha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Found the issue:
>
> Now 'arguments' should be array not string.

1. arguments hasn't been a string EVER in 0.10, can't speak to before
2. if arguments is NOT an array in position args[1], it was assumed
you had not passed the optional arguments array (because... you did
not pass an arguments arrary), so it was assuming the string was the
options object
3. you would have got an error thrown if you were on an up to date
node version, 0.10 or 0.11

Why did you update to .29, not the latest stable?